BANCROFT    LffiRAFC/ 


The  list  printed  by  me  at  Santiago,  Chili,  in  February,  1917, 
of  works  printed  in  Spanish  relating  to  those  portions  of  the 
United  States  formerly  belonging  to  Mexico,  was  only  put 
out  at  that  time  as  a  preliminary  list,  with  the  full  inten- 
tion of  re-printing  it  after  I  had  an  opportunity  to  compare 
the  titles  and  collations  as  given  by  Senor  Medina  with 
actual  copies  which  I  hoped  to  be  able  to  find  in  the  United 
States.  I  have  not  found,  however,  very  much  interest  dis- 
played in  this  work  by  librarians  and  collectors,  to  wrhom 
I  have  sent  copies,  and  have  had  to  rely  upon  a  few  only 
who  have  been  good  enough  to  help  me  to  make  the  list  more 
accurate.  In  view  of  this  lack  of  interest,  I  have  not  deemed 
it  worth  the  expense  and  trouble  to  attempt  to  make  cor- 
rections in  the  spelling,  punctuation,  use  of  capitals  and  other 
minor  errors  which  have  occurred  either  in  the  printing  of 
the  original  list  or  in  Medina's  bibliographies  themselves 
from  which  this  list  was  primarily  compiled.  I  have  dis- 
covered a  few  errors  in  collation  in  some  of  the  more  import- 
ant works  and  I  am  having  a  few  supplementary  pages  print- 
ed by  way  of  errata.  I  have  also  been  able  to  locate  quite 
a  few  copies  of  the  most  important  works  in  various  libraries, 
which  information  I  have  embodied  with  the  errata. 

Several  librarians  who  have  taken  an  interest  in  this  work 
have  favored  me  with  titles  and  collations  of  various  different 
editions  of  some  numbers  in  this  list  and  have  indicated  some 
titles  of  works  written  in  other  languages  than  Spanish. 
While  it  might  have  been  preferable  in  the  first  place  to  have 
included  in  this  list  the  few  known  works  in  other  languages 
relating  to  the  same  general  subject,  with  the  hope  of  making 
what  might  be  called  a  Bibliography,  still  these  were  omitted 
from  a  design,  from  which  I  do  not  now  care  to  depart.  No 
attempt  was  made  or  will  be  made  to  list  the  various  edi- 
tions which  have  appeared  of  some  of  these  more  important 
histories,  as  in  most  cases  fairly  complete  records  of  such 
editions  can  be  found  in  Sabin.  I  have  also  at  different 
times  both  before  and  since  this  list  was  printed  collected 
extensive  notes  regarding  a  number  of  these  books,  their 
authors,  and  subjects  treated  therein  and  also  considerable 
information  regarding  translations  which  have  appeared  at 
various  times,  but  as  stated  above,  the  lack  of  interest  dis- 
played in  the  subject  has  discouraged  me  from  proceeding  to 

publish  these  notes.  Battcroit  Library 

I  wish  to  extend  my  thanks  for  aid  in  making  corrections 
and  locating  copies  to  Herbert  I.  Priestly  of  the  Bancroft 
Library,  Gertrude  E.  Wilson  of  The  John  Carter  Brown 
Library  and  Clara  A.  Smith  of  the  Ayer  Collection  in  the 

1 


Newberry  Library,  Andrew  Keogh  of  the  Library  of  Yale 
University,  C.  K.  Jones  of  the  Library  of  Congress,  and  Geo. 
Parker  Winship  of  the  Widener  Memorial  Library,  Harvard. 
I  do  not  wish  to  convey  the  impression  that  the  copies 
which  I  have  located  are  by  any  means  the  only  ones  in 
existence.  It  is  quite  certain  that  many  private  collectors 
have  many  of  the  more  common  ones  and  some  public 
libraries  also,  no  doubt,  possess  others.  I  have  been  disap- 
pointed, however,  in  not  being  able  to  locate  any  of  the 
various  "Relaciones  de  Meritos"  in  any  library.  If  the 
Relaciones  of  Admiral  Porter  y  Cassante  and  Villagra  which 
I  have  in  my  possession  are  at  all  representative  of  the  class 
to  which  they  belong,  much  interesting  history  must  be 
buried  in  these  unpretentious  documents.  Continued  search 
in  the  archives  at  Seville  will,  no  doubt,  lead  to  the  dis- 
covery of  other  Relaciones  of  similar  character,  as  many  more 
were  printed,  no  doubt,  than  were  noticed  by  Senor  Medina. 

H.  R.  WAGNER, 
90  El  Camino  Real, 

Berkeley,  California. 


ABBREVIATIONS 

Ayer — Ayer  Collection  in  Newberry  Library,  Chicago. 

Ban. — Bancroft  Collection,  University  of  California. 

J.  C.  B. — John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Har. — Harvard  University. 

Hunt. — Library  of  H.  E.  Huntington. 

L.  C. — Library  of  Congress. 

N.  Y.  P.— New  York  Public  Library. 

Sutro — Sutro  Library,  San  Francisco. 

H.  R.  W.— Library  H.  R.  Wagner,  Berkeley,  Calif. 

U.  C. — University  of  California,  Berkeley. 

ERRATA 

No.  1. — The  collation  given  is  that  of  the  first  edition 
printed  at  Zamora  in  1542.  According  to  Mr.  Bandelier  in  his 
introduction  to  the  translation  made  by  Mrs.  Bandelier  from 
the  copy  in  the  New  York  Public  Library,  only  two  copies 
of  this  edition  are  known,  the  one  from  which  the  transla- 
tion was  made  and  another  imperfect  one  in  the  British 
Museum. 

In  1555  this  Relation  was  re-printed,  together  \vith  the 
"commentarios"  in  Valladolid  in  small  quarto.  The  Relation 
occupies  LXVI  leaves,  which  includes  the  title  in  red  and 
black,  and  two  leaves  of  index  at  the  end :  then  follow  the 
title  to  the  "commentarios,"  2  leaves  of  prohemio,  the  first 
leaf  of  which  and  the  title  are  without  number.  Numbering 
begins  on  the  second  leaf  of  the  prohemio,  No.  LVII,  and 
continues  to  CXIV,  which,  however,  is  a  misprint  for  CXLIV. 

Copies  of  this  edition  in  the  Ayer,  J.  C.  B.,  Har.,  Hunt.,  L.  C. 

No.  2.— Copies— J.  C.  B.,  Hunt,  and  N.  Y.  P. 

Another  copy,  duplicate  of  Mr.  Huntington's,  was  sold  at 
the  recent  sale  in  New  York  of  his  duplicates. 

From  a  note  attached  to  Mr.  Medina's  description  of  the 
first  edition,  it  appears  that  there  are  probably  two  varia- 
tions of  the  first  edition  but  the  matter  is  obscure  owing  to 
the  few  number  of  copies  known,  which  can  be  collected 
together. 

An  attempt  was  made  in  1554  to  suppress  this  book  by 
confiscating  all  the  known  copies,  a  cedula  being  issued 
to  that  effect,  prohibiting  not  only  the  sale  and  printing  of  it 
but  also  the  reading  of  it.  A  similar  effort  was  made  in  1556, 
and  in  1572  another  cedula  was  issued  to  take  possession  of  the 
papers  of  the  deceased  author.  No  reason  is  given  for  this 
action  except  that  the  continued  circulation  was  not  con- 
venient. 


No.  3. — The  original  edition  of  this  book,  published  in 
Rome,  does  not  contain  the  relation  of  New -Mexico.  Espejo's 
Relacion  was  printed  in  Madrid  in  1586  and  this,  together 
with  other  matter,  was  added  to  the  second  part  of  Book  3 
of  the  Historia  of  Gonzalez  de  Mendoza.  According  to  P. 
Yindel,  the  well  known  Madrid  dealer,  the  first  edition 
containing  these  chapters  was  printed  in  Madrid  in  1586, 
with  the  following  title  and  collation  : 

Historia  Delas  Cosas  Mas  Notables,  Ritos  y  costumbres  del 
gran  Reyno  dela  China,  sabidas  assi  por  los  libros  delos  niesmos 
Chinas,  como  por  relacion  de  Religiosos,  y  otras  personas  que 
han  estado  enel  dicho  Reyno.  Hecha  y  Ordenada  Por  el  muy 
Reuerendo  Padre  Maestro  Fray  luan  Gonzalez  de  Mendoca  dela 
Orden  de  S.  Agu  stin,  Predicador  Apostolico,  y  Penitenciario  de 
su  Sanctidad.  A  quien  la  Magestad  Catholica  embio  con  su  Real 
carta,  y  otras  cosas  para  el  Rey  de  aquel  Reyno  el  afio  de  1580. 
Y  nueuamente  anadida  por  el  mesnio  Autor. 

Al  illustriss.  sefior  Fernando  de  Vega  y  Fonseca  del  Consejo 
de  su  Magestad,  y  su  Presidente  enel  Real  delas  Indias.  Con 
vn  Itinerario  del  Nueuo  Mundo.  Con  Privilegio  Impressa  en 
Madrid,  en  casa  de  Querino  Gerardo  Flamenco,  Ano  de  1586. 
A  costa  de  Bias  de  Robles  librero. 

Hojas:  12  s.  n.  x  268  x  8  s.  n.  (tabla).  En  esta  impresion, 
el  libro  3.°  de  la  2.a  parte,  6  sea  el  (Itinerario),  contiene,  en  vez 
de  los  22  capitulos  que  lleva  la  de  Roma,  27. 

(Sabin  who  gives  this  edition  says  the  268  leaves  of  text  is 
a  misprint  for  368.) 

No.  4. — It  is  evident  that  this  should  really  be  No.  3,  as 
it  must  antedate  the  appearance  of  the  edition  in  Madrid  of 
Gonzales  de  Mendoza's  book  containing  this  account.  There 
is  no  copy  of  the  Spanish  edition  in  the  New  York  Public  Li- 
brary, but  there  is  said  to  be  one  in  the  British  Museum.  The 
New  York  Public  Library  and  the  Ayer  collection  contain 
copies  of  the  French  edition  and  the  English  edition  cited  is 
now  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  H.  E.  Huntington. 

No.  6. — Collation  as  follows : 

Folio   with    Engraved    Titles    to    each    part. 

1  Decade— (12)     371      (20)    1601 

2  Decade— (  4)    (368)    (16)    1601 

3  Decade— (  4)   377   (16)  1601 

4  Decade— (  4)   293   (14)  1601 

5  Decade— (  8)   317   (20)  1615 

6  Decade— (  4)   302   (18)  1615 

7  Decade— (  8)  316   (20)  1615 

8  Decade— (  4)   342  (116)  1615 
14  maps. 

Copies — Ayer,  Ban.,  Har. 

4 


No.  8.— Copies— Ayer,  Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  Har.,  N.  Y. 
Pub. 

No.    10.— Copies— H.    R.   W. 

No.  13.— Corrected  Collation,  second  edition. 
Vol.  II. — 28  leaves  in  place  of  51  pages. 
Vol.  III. — Between  the  Preliminaries  and  the  text  occur  4 
pages  of  Prologo.     Copies — First  edition  J.  C.  B. 

No.  19.— Copies— Ayer,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  Har. 

The  Southwestern  Museum  in  Los  Angeles  contains  a 
copy  of  the  French  edition  in  the  Munk  Library. 

No.  20. — J.  C.  B.  report  a  copy,  the  only  one  known  in 
the  United  States,  although  there  are  several  copies  of  re- 
print that  was  made  probably  by  Buckingham  Smith. 

There  are  really  two  different  pieces  here,  each  of  two 
leaves.  The  first  has  the  title  as  cited  and  the  second  is  the 
same  with  minor  typographical  differences,  except  that  it 
reads :  "Segunda  Relacion"  in  place  of  "Verdadera  Rela- 
cion"  and  "Ano  1633"  in  place  of  "Ano  de  1632." 

No.  21. — There  seems  but  little  doubt  that  a  Relacion  of 
New  Mexico,  either  with  this  title  or  one  similar  was  really 
printed,  although  no  copy  of  it  has  yet  been  found.  In  the 
Cronica  of  Vetancourt,  1697,  page  96,  occurs  the  following 
statement,  referring  to  an  expedition  from  New  Mexico  to 
the  East:  (Trans.)  "The  relation  of  which  was  printed  in  Mex- 
ico in  1630  in  the  press  of  the  Bernardo  Calderon  by  order  of 
the  Archbishop  Don  Francisco  Manso,  sent  by  Father 
Perea  to  him."  This  cannot  by  any  possibility  be  the  same  as 
No.  20  because  No.  20  contains  no  mention  of  an  expedition  to 
the  East. 

No.  22. — Beristain  states  that  this  letter  was  printed  in 
Madrid  in  1632  but  Eguiara  says  it  was  printed  in  Madrid  in 
1631  in  octavo,  which  latter  statement  is  probably  correct. 
No  copy  of  it  seems  to  be  known  bearing  an  earlier  date  than 
1730.  I  have  in  my  possession  a  copy  of  this  tract  with  the 
same  title  in  8  small  octavo  leaves,  as  described  under  this 
number,  with  the  exception  that  the  words  in  parenthesis  at 
the  end  are  omitted.  The  addition  of  the  date  1631  to  the. 
text  indicates  clearly  that  the  tract  was  not  printed  in  that 
year  and  in  fact  it  has  the  general  appearance  of  having  been 
printed  in  the  18th  century. 

No.  28.— Copies  in  the  Ayer,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.  Har.,  Yale, 
H.  R.  W. 

There  are  really  763  numbered  pages  in  the  text  of  this  book, 
and  the  last,  reverse  of  763,  without  number. 


No.  36. — This  is  a  printed  document  and  not  a  manuscript 
as  might  be  inferred  from  the  note  under  No.  31. 

No.  38. — I  have  not  located  any  copy  of  this  but  Ramirez 
Sale  Catalogue,  under  No.  831  gives  the  following  collation: 

Title :  9  preliminary  leaves ;  2  wood  cut  figures  and  the 
Arms  of  Spain ;  37  leaves  of  text. 

No.  39. — Copies — J.  C.  B.  and  Sutro. 
No.  43.— Copies— H.  R.  W. 
No.  45.— Copies— L.  C. 

No.  46. — Correct  collation  is  Title  and  18  leaves. 
Copies  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  H.  R.  W. 

No.  47. — Corrected  Collation — Engraved  title,  printed  title 
in  red  and  black,  17  pages  preliminaries,  one  blank,  409  pages 
text,  protesta  1  page,  1  blank,  5  pp.  index  of  the  books,  12 
pp.  index  of  notable  matters,  1  p.  errata. 

Copies— Ayer,  Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  Yale. 

No.  49.— Copies— J.  C.  B. 

No.  52. — Corrected  collation — Title,  3  leaves  preliminaries, 
86  pages  ; — 2  illustrations. 

Copies — Ayer,  J.  C.   B.,  L.   C. 

No.    53. — Corrected    collation — 16    pages,    including    title. 

Copies — Ayer,  Ban.,  L.  C. 

No.  54.— Copies— B.  M.,  should  be  M.  B.— British  Mu- 
seum. 

No.  55. — Corrected  Collation — Title  and  29  leaves  instead 
of  29  pp. 

No.  58. — These  2  leaves  belong  to  No.  59,  being  signa- 
tures K2  and  L.  of  that  piece. 

No.  59.— Copies  J.  C.  B.,  H.  R.  W. 

No.  60. — Corrected  Collation — (1730  Ed.)  Frontis-piece 
engraved  on  copper;  title,  2  leaves  dedication,  10  pages. 

Copies— J.  C.  B.,  H.  R.  W. 

No.  63. — Corrected  Collation — Title,  10  leaves  prelimin- 
aries, 392  pages,  2  leaves,  13  charts  for  astronomical  calcula- 
tions. Collation  from  copy  in  the  Bancroft  Library. 

Copies — Ban.,  L.  C. 

No.  65.— Copies— Ayer,  Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  H.  R.  \\  . 

No.  66 — Copies — Ayer,  Ban.,  J.  C.  B. 

No.  68.— Copies— Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  N.  Y.  P. 

No.  69.— Copies— H.  R.  W. 

No.  72. — Copies — Ban. 


No.  78. — Corrected  Collation — 138  pages,  including  title 
(taken  from  copy  in  the  Bancroft  Library). 

No.  80. — Copies — Sutro. 

No.  81 — Copies — Ayer. 

No.  82.— Copies— Ayer,  Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  Har.,  Sutro. 

No.  83. — Corrected  Collation — Vol.  II;  engraved  title, 
printed  title  in  red  and  black,  10  pages  preliminaries,  428 
pages  text,  10  pages  index. 

Copies— Ayer,  Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  Har.,  N.  Y.  P. 

No.  84.— Copies— Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  Sutro. 

No.  86.— Copies— Ayer,  J.   C.   B. 

No.  87. — Vol.  IX  is  the  one  which  treats  of  California  and 
New  Mexico. 

No.  89. — Copies — Ayer,  L.  C.,  Sutro. 

No.  90 — Medina  describes  both  pieces 

No.  91.— Copies— Ayer,  Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  Har.,  Sutro. 

No.  92.— Copies— Ayer,  L.  C.,  Sutro.     R>*^ 

No.  94.— Copies— Ayer,  Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C. 

No.  95.— Copies— J.  C.  B.,  H.  R.  W. 

No.  98.— Copies— J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  Har. 

No.  100.— Copies— Ayer,  J.  C.  B.,  Har. 

No.  102— Copies— Ayer,  J.  C.  B.,  N.  Y.  P.,  Sutro. 

No.  103. — Corrected  Collation — Title,  2  leaves  prelimin- 
aries, 31  pages  numbered  and  one  unnumbered  at  end. 

No.   104 — Corrected  Collation — Title,  33  pages  plus   1  un- 
numbered of  protesta. 
Copies— H.  R.  W. 

No.  105 — Corrected  Collation — Change  1  page  indice  to 
one  leaf. 

Copies — Ayer,  J.  C.  B. 

No.  107. — The  small  quarto  edition  in  8  pages  is  probably 
a  second  edition. 

Copies— Ayer,  U.  C.,  H.  R.  W.   (both). 

No.  108. — All  these  copies  have  title  and  56  pages,  but  at 
the  sale  of  the  Ramirez  Library  in  London  there  appeared 
under  No.  918  a  copy  catalogued  as  having  56  pages,  plus  3 
without  number.  This  lot  was  bought  by  Mr.  Quaritch  and 
afterwards  catalogued  by  him  in  the  same  manner.  It  passed 
into  possession  of  Mr.  Ayer  and  it  appears  the  3  unnumbered 


leaves  is  a  copy  of  No.  107  evidently  considered  by  the  cata- 
loger  of  the  Ramirez  collection  to  be  part  of  108. 

Copies — Ayer,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C. 

No.  109.— Copies— Ayer,  Ban.,  H.  R.  W. 

No.  111. — Copies — Ban. 

No.  112.— Copies  (1772  Ed.)— Ayer,  Ban.,  H.  R.  W. 

No.  115.— Copies— H.  R.  W. 

I  have  not  located  any  copy  with  the  210  pages  noted. 
My  own  copy  has  42,  plus  133  and  another  copy  reported  had 
only  the  first  42  pages. 

No.    116 — Copies — Ayer. 

No.  117.— Copies— Ayer,  Hunt.,  N.  Y.  P. 

No.  118. — Mr.  Cowan  gives  56  pp  only  from  the  MacDon- 
ald  copy  now  belonging  to  Mr.  Huntington  and  I  have  also 
seen  a  reference  to  this  in  a  catalogue  as  containing  56  leaves. 

Copies — Ban.,  Hunt.,  Ban,  catalogued  as  56  pp  folio. 

No.  120. — There  are  two  issues  of  the  map,  one  with  the 
words  Mar  Pacifico  and  the  other  without  them. 

Copies — Ayer,  Ban.,  J.  C.  B.,  Hunt.,  L.  C.,  Sutro. 

No.  121. — Copies — Ban. 

No.   123. — Copies — Ayer,   Ban.,  J.   C.   B.,  Har. 

No.  125.— Copies— Ayer,  J.  C.  B.,  L.  C.,  Har.,  N.  Y.  P. 

No.  127. — Copies — Ayer,  Ban.,  (writh  appendice)  L.  C.,  H. 
R.  W. 

No.  130. — Corrected  Collation — 48  pages,  including  title,  3 
pages  index.  Corrected  Collation  1849  edition:  Title,  IV,  98 
pages,  4  pages  index,  and  map. 

Copies— L.  C.,  H.  R.  W. 

No.  132.— Copies— H.  R.  W. 

No.  133. — Copies — L.  C.,  Sutro. 

No.  135. — I  have  seen  but  one  copy  of  this  piece  and  it 
only  contains  7  pages.  Presumably  it  was  continued  to  15 
pages  in  a  second  letter. 

No.  136.  Corrected  Collation  (first  part) — Half  title; 
title;  VI  ;  108  pages,  70  (2),  Map.  The  map  contained  in  my 
copy,  which  is  the  only  one  I  have  seen  has  the  following 
title : 

Carte  Del'Amerique  Septentrionale  Par  A.  H.  Brue  a 
Paris  1820.  Probably  this  map  does  not  belong  to  the  book 
but  is  inserted. 


8 


Binder 
Gay  lord  Bros. 

Makers 
Stockton,  Calif. 

PAT.  JAN  21.  1908 


£S:.itt,    £\ 


